Quotes about toad
A collection of quotes on the topic of toad, good, goodness, likeness.
Quotes about toad

Source: House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories

“There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirming like a toad.”
"Riders on the Storm" from the album L.A. Woman (1971).
“You can't turn the sheriff into a toad, Hannah. It's against the rules.”
Source: Magic in the Wind

“It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.”
Source: Summer Knight
Source: Meditations in Wall Street (1940), pp. 91-92

“The toad, without which no garden would be complete.”
Thirteenth Week.
My Summer in a Garden (1870)

“Harry Vane, Pulteney's toad-eater.”
Letter to Sir Horace Mann (1742)

Reply to a Facebook detractor who said "pride goes before a fall", 2016
2016

“Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back.”
Xfm 02 November 2002
On Nature

Mary Jane Boarman in a Sunday letter to her father (January 21, 1872)
The people mentioned in Mary Jane's letter were her children Lloyd, Charley, and Nancy; her husband, William Henry Broome; her sisters Eliza, Anna, Laura, and Nora; her brother Frankie; and her nephew frontier physician Dr. Charles "Charley" Harris, son of her sister Susan.
John Broome and Rebecca Lloyd: Their Descendants and Related Families, 18th to 21st Centuries (2009)

Source: The Story of My Life (1932), p. 383

1981 Chairman's Letter http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/1981.html
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)
"How Does a Panda Fit?", p. 21
An Urchin in the Storm (1987)

"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/

“The three-toed tree-toad
Sings his sweet ode
To the moon;
The funny bunny
And his honey
Trip in tune.”
Nocturne http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/3078.html
"Reversing Established Orders", p. 396
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)

“Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.”
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 24 (p. 186)

“Honest Toad was always ready to admit himself in the wrong.”
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 8, "Toad's Adventures"

Pagett M.P, prelude
Departmental Ditties and other Verses (1886)

"Instructions", first published in A Wolf at the Door and Other Retold Fairy Tales (2000) edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling

“Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field.”
Source: Beatrice & Virgil (2010), p. 114

Interview in The Paris Review http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6034/the-art-of-fiction-no-204-david-mitchell

“He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.”
A charitable Man, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 2
Context: Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.